We are data-driven observational astronomers. We use the world's most powerful telescopes—ALMA & JWST—to directly witness how the ingredients for life are assembled in planet-forming disks.
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How are habitable worlds built? We investigate the critical first few million years of planetary formation. By tracing chemical fingerprints in young protoplanetary disks, we map the origins of the planets—and the life—we observe today.
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2025/11 — Congratulations to Nina Weichmann for receiving the Doherty Undergraduate Research Award from the Astronomy Department!
2025/07 — Our AGE-PRO Large Program has published 12 papers in a dedicated ApJ Focus Issue! See coverage from NRAO and UW-Madison.
2025/04 — Congratulations to Carl Yao for receiving a Sophomore Research Fellowship!
2025/04 — Congratulations to Nick Tallon for receiving a Sophomore Research Fellowship!
2025/04 — Congratulations to Tayt Armitage for receiving honorable mention in NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program!
2025/03 — Our JWST proposal "Population Study of Chemistry in the First Million Years of Planet Formation: A MIRI Survey of Embedded Disks in Ophiuchus" has been approved! (PI. Zhang, 68.5h)
2025/03 — Congratulations to Tayt Armitage for being awarded the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium Graduate Research Fellowship!
2025/03 — Congratulations to our undergraduate Nick Tallon for receiving the Peter Livingston Scholarship and Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium undergraduate fellowship!